| advancement | (noun) the act of moving forward (as toward a goal) | Synonyms: advance, forward motion, onward motion, procession, progress, progression |
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| (noun) gradual improvement or growth or development | Synonyms: progress |
| (noun) encouragement of the progress or growth or acceptance of something | Synonyms: furtherance, promotion |
| amercement | (noun) money extracted as a penalty | Synonyms: fine, mulct |
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| announcement | (noun) a public statement containing information about an event that has happened or is going to happen | Synonyms: promulgation |
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| (noun) a formal public statement | Synonyms: annunciation, declaration, proclamation |
| cembalo | (noun) a clavier with strings that are plucked by plectra mounted on pivots | Synonyms: harpsichord |
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| cement | (noun) a specialized bony substance covering the root of a tooth | Synonyms: cementum |
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| (noun) a building material that is a powder made of a mixture of calcined limestone and clay; used with water and sand or gravel to make concrete and mortar | - |
| (noun) something that hardens to act as adhesive material | - |
| (noun) concrete pavement is sometimes referred to as cement | - |
| (noun) any of various materials used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth | - |
| (verb) bind or join with or as if with cement | - |
| (verb) make fast as if with cement | - |
| (verb) cover or coat with cement | - |
| cementite | (noun) a chemical compound that is a constituent of steel and cast iron; very hard and brittle | Synonyms: iron carbide |
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| cementitious | (adjective) like or relevant to or having the properties of cement | - |
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| cementum | (noun) a specialized bony substance covering the root of a tooth | Synonyms: cement |
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| cemetery | (noun) a tract of land used for burials | Synonyms: burial ground, burial site, burying ground, graveyard, memorial park, necropolis |
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| commencement | (noun) the act of starting something | Synonyms: beginning, start |
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| (noun) an academic exercise in which diplomas are conferred | Synonyms: commencement ceremony, commencement exercise, graduation, graduation exercise |
| (noun) the time at which something is supposed to begin | Synonyms: beginning, first, get-go, kickoff, offset, outset, showtime, start, starting time |
| defacement | (noun) the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something | Synonyms: disfiguration, disfigurement, mutilation |
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| denouncement | (noun) a public act of denouncing | Synonyms: denunciation |
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| displacement | (noun) act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics | Synonyms: supplanting |
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| (noun) act of removing from office or employment | - |
| (noun) the act of uniform movement | Synonyms: translation |
| (noun) to move something from its natural environment | Synonyms: deracination |
| (noun) an event in which something is displaced without rotation | Synonyms: shift |
| (noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one | - |
| (noun) (chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound | Synonyms: displacement reaction |
| divorcement | (noun) the legal dissolution of a marriage | Synonyms: divorce |
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| effacement | (noun) withdrawing into the background; making yourself inconspicuous | Synonyms: self-effacement |
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| (noun) shortening of the uterine cervix and thinning of its walls as it is dilated during labor | - |
| embracement | (noun) the act of clasping another person in the arms (as in greeting or affection) | Synonyms: embrace, embracing |
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| emplacement | (noun) the act of putting something in a certain place | Synonyms: locating, location, placement, position, positioning |
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| (noun) military installation consisting of a prepared position for siting a weapon | - |
| enforcement | (noun) the act of enforcing; ensuring observance of or obedience to | - |
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| enhancement | (noun) an improvement that makes something more agreeable | Synonyms: sweetening |
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| enticement | (noun) the act of influencing by exciting hope or desire | Synonyms: temptation |
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| (noun) qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward | Synonyms: come-on, lure |
| (noun) something that seduces or has the quality to seduce | Synonyms: temptation |
| entrancement | (noun) a feeling of delight at being filled with wonder and enchantment | Synonyms: ravishment |
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| forcemeat | (noun) mixture of ground raw chicken and mushrooms with pistachios and truffles and onions and parsley and lots of butter and bound with eggs | Synonyms: farce |
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| hypercalcemia | (noun) the presence of abnormally high levels of calcium in the blood; usually the result of excessive bone resorption in hyperparathyroidism or Paget's disease | Synonyms: hypercalcaemia |
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| hyperglycemia | (noun) abnormally high blood sugar usually associated with diabetes | Synonyms: hyperglycaemia |
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| hypocalcemia | (noun) abnormally low level of calcium in the blood; associated with hypoparathyroidism or kidney malfunction or vitamin D deficiency | Synonyms: hypocalcaemia |
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| hypoglycemia | (noun) abnormally low blood sugar usually resulting from excessive insulin or a poor diet | Synonyms: hypoglycaemia |
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| hypoglycemic | (adjective) of or relating to hypoglycemia | Synonyms: hypoglycaemic |
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| iceman | (noun) someone who cuts and delivers ice | - |
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| (noun) a professional killer | Synonyms: hatchet man |
| inducement | (noun) act of bringing about a desired result | Synonyms: inducing |
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| (noun) a positive motivational influence | Synonyms: incentive, motivator |
| mincemeat | (noun) spiced mixture of chopped raisins and apples and other ingredients with or without meat | - |
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| misplacement | (noun) faulty position | Synonyms: malposition |
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| pacemaker | (noun) a horse used to set the pace in racing | Synonyms: pacer, pacesetter |
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| (noun) an implanted electronic device that takes over the function of the natural cardiac pacemaker | Synonyms: artificial pacemaker |
| (noun) a specialized bit of heart tissue that controls the heartbeat | Synonyms: cardiac pacemaker, SA node, sinoatrial node |
| (noun) a leading instance in its field | Synonyms: pacesetter |
| peacemaker | (noun) someone who tries to bring peace | Synonyms: conciliator, make-peace, pacifier, reconciler |
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| pericementoclasia | (noun) pus pocket formation around a tooth | - |
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| piecemeal | (adjective) one thing at a time | Synonyms: bit-by-bit, in small stages, step-by-step, stepwise |
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| (adverb) a little bit at a time | Synonyms: bit by bit, in stages, little by little |
| placeman | (noun) a disparaging term for an appointee | Synonyms: placeseeker |
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| placement | (noun) the act of putting something in a certain place | Synonyms: emplacement, locating, location, position, positioning |
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| (noun) contact established between applicants and prospective employees | - |
| (noun) the spatial property of the way in which something is placed | Synonyms: arrangement |
| policeman | (noun) a male member of a police force | - |
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| pronouncement | (noun) an authoritative declaration | Synonyms: dictum, say-so |
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| raceme | (noun) usually elongate cluster of flowers along the main stem in which the flowers at the base open first | - |
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| racemose | (adjective) having stalked flowers along an elongated stem that continue to open in succession from below as the stem continues to grow | - |
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| recommencement | (noun) beginning again | Synonyms: resumption |
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| reenforcement | (noun) a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission | Synonyms: reinforcement, support |
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| (noun) information that makes more forcible or convincing | Synonyms: reinforcement |
| reinforcement | (noun) an act performed to strengthen approved behavior | Synonyms: reward |
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| (noun) a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission | Synonyms: reenforcement, support |
| (noun) a device designed to provide additional strength | Synonyms: strengthener |
| (noun) (psychology) a stimulus that strengthens or weakens the behavior that produced it | Synonyms: reinforcer, reinforcing stimulus |
| (noun) information that makes more forcible or convincing | Synonyms: reenforcement |
| renouncement | (noun) an act (spoken or written) declaring that something is surrendered or disowned | Synonyms: renunciation |
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| replacement | (noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another | Synonyms: replacing |
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| (noun) a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another | Synonyms: substitute |
| (noun) an event in which one thing is substituted for another | Synonyms: permutation, substitution, switch, transposition |
| (noun) a person who follows next in order | Synonyms: successor |
| (noun) someone who takes the place of another person | Synonyms: alternate, surrogate |
| (noun) filling again by supplying what has been used up | Synonyms: refilling, renewal, replenishment |
| septicemia | (noun) invasion of the bloodstream by virulent microorganisms from a focus of infection | Synonyms: blood poisoning, septicaemia |
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| septicemic | (adjective) characteristic of septicemia | - |
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| serviceman | (noun) someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force | Synonyms: man, military man, military personnel |
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| solacement | (noun) the comfort you feel when consoled in times of disappointment | Synonyms: consolation, solace |
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| (noun) comfort in disappointment or misery | Synonyms: solace |
| spaceman | (noun) a person trained to travel in a spacecraft | Synonyms: astronaut, cosmonaut |
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| spicemill | (noun) a mill for grinding spices | - |
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| traducement | (noun) a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions | Synonyms: calumniation, calumny, defamation, hatchet job, obloquy |
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| voicemail | (noun) a computerized system for answering and routing telephone calls; telephone messages can be recorded and stored and relayed | Synonyms: voice mail |
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